Results from the Hazardous Weather Testbed: What do Forecasters Think About Dual-Polarization Phased Array Radar?

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• Personal Author:
  Kuster, Charles M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Severe Storms Laboratory. ; Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; NSSL (National Severe Storms Laboratory) ; CIWRO (Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations)
• Description:
  The current National Weather Service (NWS) operational radar network has provided high-quality data for decades. As the need to replace this radar network increases, the NWS is currently assessing options for the next operational radar network. However, there is a need for information, including feedback from the NWS forecasters who use the data on a day-to-day basis, to select the best possible replacement option. One potential option is phased array radars (PAR). Therefore, researchers at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) are conducting Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) activities with NWS forecasters to gather their feedback on PAR and the current operational network of dish-based radars, known as the Weather Surveillance 1988-Doppler (WSR-88D) radars.
• Keywords:
  Research Weather Radar Networks Weather Radar Networks
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/p7m5-gm39
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA20OAR4320472
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7d6330bc6eeebf90b0beb674d069ec57199ab75fc4c45e369e61e1cc4340cf3e02f21ee64c0b9944b3c83384e354e8d75ca7abf9d0556b905094acde0e4cb046
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